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Public Debt and Productivity : The Difficult Quest for Growth in Jamaica
Blavy, Rodolphe - 2007
The paper analyzes Jamaica's experience of low growth despite consistently high investment. Cross-country analysis … excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778208
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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment : The Case of Developing Countries
Alsadiq, Ali - 2013
Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition …, it is important to assess how domestic investment responds to such outflows. This study empirically examines the effects … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085137
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Real Exchange Rates, Economic Complexity, and Investment
Brito, Steve - 2018
We show that the response of firm-level investment to real exchange rate movements varies depending on the production … structure of the economy. Firms in advanced economies and in emerging Asia increase investment when the domestic currency … well as some advanced economies with a low degree of structural economic complexity, corporate investment increases when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913927
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Demographics, Pension Systems and the Saving-Investment Balance
Chai, Hua - 2019
This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895118
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Safe Asset Demand, Global Capital Flows and Wealth Concentration
Kim, Taehoon - 2022
assets and funding foreign risky investment. This paper develops a general equilibrium model to analyze and quantify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306735
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Launching Export Accelerations in Latin America and the World
Cerra, Valerie - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of sustained accelerations in goods and services exports. Strong predictors of export takeoffs include domestic and structural indicators such as lower macroeconomic uncertainty, improved quality of institutions, a depreciated exchange rate, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957850
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The Impact of Natural Resource Discoveries in Latin America and the Caribbean : A Closer Look at the Case of Bolivia
Toscani, Frederik - 2017
This paper studies the impact of natural resource extraction in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from a number of angles. First, we exploit a novel dataset on the universe of giant oil and gas discoveries in the region to trace out the cyclical response of macroeconomic variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960578
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Trade Integration in Latin America : A Network Perspective
Beaton, Kimberly - 2017
The paper applies a network analysis framework to analyze the regional and global integration of Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We compare network-based measures of trade integration to conventional measures, decomposing integration along several dimensions to better understand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950403
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Migration and Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean : Engines of Growth and Macroeconomic Stabilizers?
Beaton, Kimberly - 2017
Outward migration has been an important phenomenon for countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC), particularly those in Central America and the Caribbean. This paper examines recent trends in outward migration from and remittances to LAC, as well as their costs and benefits. For the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950408
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Tax Policy for Inclusive Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
Acosta Ormaechea, Santiago; Pienknagura, Samuel; … - 2022
—to attract investment and alleviate profit shifting, and on broadening the corporate tax base. Value-added taxes (VAT) could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295146